Landing at the airport in Aden, the port city presently serving as Yemen’s capital, requires a descent over the shining blue water of the Arabian Sea and the score of tankers waiting at anchor.
Israel-Lebanon negotiations: Is the maritime border the issue at stake?
Israel and many (Gulf) Sunni nations have aligned with each other against the greater threat of Iran and its proxies (e.g., Lebanon/Hezbollah, Syria, and Yemen) to counter their destabilizing effect …
UN chief urges countries to help address economic crisis in war-torn Yemen
General Antonio Guterres has called on world countries to provide financial assistance to resolve the severe economic crisis in Yemen, which has been under incessant attacks by a Saudi-led coalition …
Yemen most at risk of humanitarian catastrophe in 2021: IRC
In a list of countries where crises are set to worsen, aid agency ranks Yemen first for the third year running.
Health funding shortages in Yemen put thousands of migrants’ lives at risk
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is increasingly concerned about the serious impact that funding shortages could have on the ability of migrants to survive the looming famine and the …
Yemen is collapsing. That may be its salvation
Weakened by war, Yemen’s government is barely functioning, but that has allowed creative local leaders to thrive — and perhaps show the way forward.
Hunger, polluted water threaten millions in Yemen
A teenager holds his malnourished brother in Hajjah Province, north Yemen, on Dec. 14, 2020. (Xinhua/Mohammed Al-Wafi) “We are facing a major problem which is the lack of malnutrition medications amid …
UN Chief calls on member states to help address severe economic crisis in Yemen
General Antonio Guterres has called on member states to help address the severe economic crisis in Yemen. In a statement on the second anniversary of the Stockholm Agreement between the Yemeni …
Yemen: How Covid-19 spread in a war zone
It’s been nearly nine months since the first Covid-19 case was confirmed in Yemen, a country divided between the Houthi group in the north, and an internationally recognised government in the south.
Oil tanker attacked in Saudi Arabian port by “booby-trapped boat” amid ongoing war in Yemen
The apparent attack would be the 4th in a month targeting Saudi energy infrastructure as the kingdom wages a war against Iran-backed rebels in Yemen.